Steven Salerno

A howling human baby causes ferocious jungle animals to tremble until they try to tame it.

Harry is a baby so hungry that he eats all the food in his house, then goes outside to find more.

A group of children says goodbye to a beloved pet turtle who has died.

Chicken Chuck the rooster, who has set himself up as boss of the barnyard by virtue of the special blue feather in the middle of his forehead, finds his authority undermined by a circus horse with two blue feathers.

When Mrs. Wow takes in a stray cow, her lazy dog and cat hope to train the new household member to catch mice and intimidate the mailman.

"There's a secret code inside you, a code called DNA. A code that tells your body's cells what they should do each day. It looks like twisted ladders, or tiny, twirling noodles. It makes us into people, instead of into poodles. Why can't humans breathe underwater? Why are some people tall and others short? Why do we resemble our parents and grandparents? This book explores all this and more in flowing, rhyming text, explaining cells, DNA, and genetics...

When a little boy tries to get clean the way different animals do, he only gets dirtier.

Pantaloon, a poodle with a sweet tooth, proves to the Baker that he makes a great helper.

A collection of poems written in the form of mathematical problems and grouped according to seasonal themes.

John Hercules is worried about being the only boy in his kindergarten class, but after the first week he stops worrying.